i was 41 years old and a mother to an 18 year old, 14 year old and 7 year old. my husband and i had started a new business and put all of our savings into it, along with mortgaging all of our property and maxing out all of our credit cards.

i had an abortion in my thirties. i got pregnant when a condom came off during sex. my partner pulled out before i had a chance to secure it.

in the early months of my twenty-first year, i wanted to end things with my boyfriend. he had disrespected my sexual boundaries, and i have no tolerance for that.

i'm one of those rare women who have had an iud fail. it was may my junior year of college. my boyfriend and i had just relocated to california for summer jobs when i figured out the highly improbable: i was pregnant.

one summer when i was 16, i had an abortion. i was brought up in a conservative methodist home in texas. i had gotten pregnant by my boyfriend at the time, we were young curious hormonal teenagers.

i have type 2 cancer of the left ovary and have been doing ongoing proton and radiation treatments since july 2012. i had an abortion in november 2012. i was 33 and he was 39. i live in texas and he lives in louisiana. i am also the only person in my family who lives in texas.